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by nottorp 925 days ago
You're talking about EA, Ubisoft and Rockstar titles there. Case closed.

Incidentally, if you must get something from those 3, they're forbidden to require an account on at least the PlayStation. Not sure about XBox.
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johnnyanmac 925 days ago
do they need to list every single player game that has a day one patch not included on a physical disc? I guess we haven't gotten so far in game patching that some retro gamers buy a new copy of a game and can't update to 1.0.0 now.
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nottorp 924 days ago
The companies I listed require an account with them, not day one patches.
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johnnyanmac 924 days ago
Both affect the ability to play a game out of the box, should servers be down.
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nottorp 924 days ago
Only multiplayer online games. For single player, especially on consoles that still have a bit of QA left, you can live with 1.0.0.

And look on the bright side. If you're stuck on 1.0.0 you're missing the microtransactions they introduced in 1.0.1 after the reviewers finished publishing their reviews.

Edit: why do I get the feeling most of the people disagreeing with me only play PC games from the big 4-5 names? In which case I completely agree with them.

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